A Cheer For Christmas

You know the silly season is upon us when barbs start flying around over “holiday trees” and the supposed ethnicity or gender of Santa Claus, not to mention the unending barrage launched by vested interests to get you to buy stuff. Needless to say, the significance of the birth of Jesus to Christians is deeply overshadowed by this noisome pestilence.

Perhaps there is some use in one aspect of all this: namely of its supposed help in restoring the economy. The irony in such attempts to revive a moribund economy by trying to get poor us to spend more and more of the money we don’t have cannot be lost.  That irony is deepened further when it is realized that the economy is where it is today because it was driven there, in the first place, by the actions of those captains of commerce who did not care much about what they were doing to the public, quite against the Christian message. But instead, they just took and took until it hurt.

Holiday Trees, Black Santas or Santas of unspecified gender are good for a laugh, and talking about them should stimulate seasonal merriment that would otherwise be subverted by suspicion that overusing our credit cards is just creating opportunities for predatory elements in society. 

So, therefore, let us all be merry and, as well, wish for a really new and improved New Year.

Tell Fren Tru

PS. Some of you might be relieved to note that I haven’t even asked for a donation to the cause of the Sierra Leone Sickle Cell Disease Society this year. You may find details of what they do at www.sleonesickle.org